Small Business
  • Young Workers Pushed onto Parents' Health Plans

    By Michele Andrews, Kaiser Health News

    Young adults who need health insurance have more options than before under the health-care overhaul, which generally allows them to stay on their parents' plans until they reach age 26. But the...

  • Dismal GDP Adds Desperation to a Divided Congress

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    The economy grew at a dismal 1.5 percent in the second quarter, a cruel reminder that nearly everything tried so far—tax cuts, deficit spending, austerity at the state level, slashed interest rates—...

  • Big Banks' Glory Days Could Be Gone for Good

    By JED HOROWITZ, Reuters

    The summer of 2012 may be remembered as the time when regulation, scandals and a protracted slow-growth economy finally caught up with big American banks.

  • CBO: Supreme Court Decision Lowers Obamacare Costs

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    The Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act but giving states the right to opt out of the law’s Medicaid expansion will save the federal government an additional $84 billion over...

  • Higher Costs Bring Some U.S. Manufacturers Home

    By Scott Malone and Ernest Scheyder, Reuters

    With just $11 million in revenue last year, Seesmart is a tiny company, but it is one of many manufacturers of all sizes – from Master Lock to blue-chips General Electric Co and Caterpillar Inc –...